“The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.”

Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 14.

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American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer 1914–1994

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“The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.”

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